Reno Gang

The Reno Gang was a gang of train robbers from Jackson County, Indiana, led by the brothers Vance Reno, Brett Reno, Ray Reno, and Clint Reno. The brothers were Union army deserters and antebellum criminals; they enlisted in the army several times under many names, but they never showed up for muster, instead taking their enlistment money and fleeing. They would eventually join the Confederate States Army as a unit of cavalry raiders, with Vance leading the group. The gang committed its last raid on 10 April 1865, when it stole $12,000 from a Union payroll train. The gang members discovered that the American Civil War had ended four days earlier from some former Confederate troops, and they decided to keep the money. The gang would become a gang of outlaws, robbing banks and people in Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa, and they committed several train robberies in 1868. On 11 December 1868, the brothers were lynched by a mob after being imprisoned by the police.